The Purpose of Reading

Day and Jeong-suk Park. They are Literal, reorganization, inference, prediction, evaluation, and personal response. 13  Literal Comprehension Literal comprehension is an understanding of the straight forward meaning of an information of s text such a facts, vocabulary, dates, time, and locations. Question of literal comprehension is able to be answer directly and explicitly from the text.  Reorganization Reorganization is an understanding that is based on a literal understanding of a text that is combined with various part of the text for additional understanding. For instance students may read at the beginning of a text “TransJakarta began to operate in Indonesia capital city since 2008” and la ter in the end of paragraph students may read “Until 2014, Jakarta still uses this public transportation and will improve the quality service of it.” Then the question is “How Long has Transjakarta been operating?” To answer the question, students have to put together two pieces of information that are from various parts of the text.  Inference Inference is an understanding of a text that is more than literal understanding. Inference understanding is not only an understanding of an explicit meaning stated in the text but an understanding of it implicit meaning which is unstated in the text.  Prediction Prediction is an understanding that requires a reader to use both their understanding of a passage and their own knowledge of the topic and related 13 Richard R. day and Jeong- suk Park “Developing Reading Comprehension Questions”, Reading in Foreign Language. Vol.17.No.1.1 st April 2005. Pg.62 matters in a systematic fashion to determine what might happen next or after a story ends.  Evaluation Evaluation is an understanding that requires the learner to give a global or comprehensive judgment about some aspect of the text. For example, a comprehension question that requires the reader to give an evaluation of an article is: How will the information in this article be useful to you?  Personal Response The sixth type of comprehension, personal response, requires readers to respond with their feelings for the text and the subject. The answers are not found in the text; they come strictly from the readers. While no personal responses are incorrect, they cannot be unfounded; they must relate to the content of the text and reflect a literal understanding of the material. An example of a comprehension question that requires a personal response is: What do you like or dislike about this article? Like an evaluation question, In Personal Respond, students have to use both their literal understanding and their own knowledge to respond.

4. Teaching Reading

Teaching reading in Indonesia becomes important as the purpose of teaching English in Indonesia is primarily emphasized on the achieving of reading skill fluency. Due to the status of English in Indonesia is a foreign language, hence the status of teaching English in Indonesia is Teaching English a Foreign Language EFL. While Teaching English as a foreign language to students, one thing that a teacher should remember that a common problem of students‟ difficulties in learning a foreign language is that they easily forget about the material. As a consequences, according to Holesinska in her thesis, giving enough opportunity and a time to repeat